What is actually in a standard screen where you are?
Curious how much this varies. The list I was given seems shorter than what people describe in other countries.
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Still itching two weeks after treatment
No live lice that I can find. The itch has not gone. Do I treat again?
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Travelling with my medication
First trip abroad since diagnosis. Worried about customs, about labels, and about running out.
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They mentioned LGV. What is that?
Word came up in my appointment and I nodded rather than asking. Some sort of chlamydia variant?
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My screening interval changed and nobody explained
Used to be every three years. New letter says five. It feels like a cut.
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Partner has nothing after two years
I have had recurring warts for two years. He has never had one. He is starting to think I am the problem and honestly so am…
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Missed the second injection by a week
Three weekly injections, I missed the middle one and went a week late. Does the course still count?
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What exactly is disseminated gonococcal infection?
Term came up in a previous thread here and I want to understand it properly rather than half understand it.
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Towels, pools, hot tubs
Read that this one survives outside the body better than the others. Is non sexual transmission realistic?
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Is this the same as head lice treatment?
I have a bottle in the cupboard from when the children had head lice. Can I use that?
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Colposcopy result terminology. I do not understand my letter
Letter is full of abbreviations and grades. I understand roughly that it is not cancer and not much else.
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Are tablets really as good as the injection?
Following on from the shortage thread. I would genuinely prefer tablets. Is the injection better or just traditional?
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Why is herpes not in the standard screen?
Asked at my last appointment and was told it is not routinely tested. That seems like a strange omission for a sexual health service.
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Only oral sex. Do I need testing?
Nothing else happened. I assumed a screen was unnecessary and now I am not sure.
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Fourth episode this year. Is it resistance?
Treated four times since January. Same symptoms, same result each time. I am starting to think the drug does not work on mine.
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Do I need the HPV vaccine as well?
Living with HIV. HPV vaccination was mentioned in passing at a clinic appointment. I am in my thirties and assumed I was past it.
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What actually counts as exposure?
Genuinely unsure where the line is. Does everything count, or only certain things? I do not want to waste an appointment and I do not want…
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Can I use a wart remover from the pharmacy?
There are products on the shelf for warts and verrucas and they are far cheaper than a clinic. Is there a reason not to?
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Is there any treatment for the virus itself?
Everything on offer treats what the virus has done. Is there genuinely nothing that targets the virus?
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